Example sentences of "[adj] at [art] age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it a mania for translating bishops — represented at its oddest in the idea that it was sensible at the age of 73 to move the revered George Bell to one of these sees ? |
| 2 | I was diagnosed as being asthmatic at the age of 48 , although on reflection I suspect that I had probably suffered mild intermittent symptoms in childhood . |
| 3 | CONSCIOUS of being lesbian at the age of eleven , I spent the next seventeen years repressing my true self , taking much spontaneity from my character . |
| 4 | Er normally as I said earlier payable at the age of sixty erm and the benefits are based on average salary which is the best three hundred and sixty five days out of the last ten ninety five so it 's the best year out of the last three years salary . |
| 5 | John Wesley recollected how when he read Holy Living and Holy Dying at the age of twenty-two ‘ instantly I resolved to dedicate all my life to God , all my thoughts and words and actions ’ . |
| 6 | But if , as in your son 's case , the foreskin is still tight at the age of five or six , then it could lead to inflammation and discomfort — an infection could fester under the foreskin , causing redness , soreness and swelling . |
| 7 | She was nearly adopted before the correct diagnosis became obvious at the age of five . |
| 8 | Ah me , no one would get married at the age of fourteen |
| 9 | Ndlovu is already a national hero in Zimbabwe after becoming their youngest ever international at the age of 15 . |
| 10 | Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself . |
| 11 | Leonard Bernstein started on the road to fame in the early nineteen forties when he was assistant conductor with the New York Philharmonic at the age of just twenty five . |
| 12 | The likelihood is that at that point you will then turn into what the young term a boring old fart and that transition from enfant terrible to boring old fart is immediate at the age of sixty . |
| 13 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 14 | One female patient diagnosed as coeliac at the age of 65 years , was noted to be ‘ a sickly child with short stature ’ . |
| 15 | Thomas Davidson became deaf at the age of four due to illness and was educated as a private pupil of Dr. Thomas Watson of the Old Kent Road Asylum . |
| 16 | Born in Taunton , Somerset to a wealthy coal merchant , he became deaf at the age of 5 due to illness . |
| 17 | Third in this trilogy of deaf men of remarkable achievements of this era who were mainly oralist but who respected those that used sign language was Abraham Farrar , born at Leeds , who became deaf at the age of 3 due to scarlet fever . |
| 18 | Born at Bromley Hall , Middlesex , Helen Burnside became totally deaf at the age of 12 and learnt sign language so that she could communicate — she never mastered the art of lipreading . |
| 19 | John W. McCandless was born in 1884 in Londonderry , the son of a Justice of the Peace , and became deaf at the age of 10 months through scarlet fever , and was sent to the Langside Institution at Glasgow , Scotland . |
| 20 | Francis ( Frank ) Maylett Smith became totally deaf at the age of 20 after receiving an education at St. Paul 's School in London . |
| 21 | SCOTT Garthwaite 's mum Susan thought he would never hear again when he went deaf at the age of two . |
| 22 | That the son turned out to be all but six and a half feet tall at the age of thirteen and went through school and university wielding a subversive wit which catapulted him into the West End and the beginnings of real fame in his early twenties , seems almost in bad taste , very embarrassing indeed , certainly uncalled for and probably best left undiscovered . |
| 23 | When I saw my friend Bob Hope in some comedy or other at the age of six I provided him with an imaginary wife , who was called ‘ Nothing ’ . |
| 24 | Leonard Bernstein dead at the age of seventy two . |
| 25 | Nine children survived infancy : two sons , both subsequently knights , George , who died childless at the age of twenty-eight , and John , who settled in Kent ; and seven daughters , including Elizabeth , who married Thomas , Baron Knyvet of Escrick [ q.v. ] , and Joan , wife of John Thynne , son of the builder of Longleat . |
| 26 | There is , however , a sharp decline to only 4 per cent remaining economically active at the age of 65 or over ( OPCS , 1990 , p. 202 ) . |
| 27 | I was already aware at the age of eleven of my mother 's political background : she had been an active Communist until 1965 . |
| 28 | Indeed , aggression is one of the most predictable ( stable ) psychological traits or attributes over the life-span ; children who are particularly aggressive at the age of three are also likely to be the children who fight and quarrel most frequently at fourteen and even in early adulthood . |